Room to Read Project
8am Visit to Room to Read project funded by Cassils and Wettsteins
Paul Hancock, Patricia Solar, John and I traveled 40 minutes outside of Siem Reap to visit a village school library. For anyone interested in funding child education Room to Read is well positioned in Laos and Cambodia as we know from personal experience.
In Cambodia the Room to Read team has chosen to focus on all of our core programs, except for the School Room Program. They have identified library construction, Khmer language children’s books, and girls’ scholarships as three of the most important improvements we can make to the educational system and have thus chosen to focus much of their work there. The following table highlights our Cambodia team’s success to date:
| Program | Total Thru 2008 | 2009 (Projected) |
| Libraries Established | 1105 | 81 |
| New Local Language Titles | 69 | 10 |
| Schools Constructed | - | - |
| Girls Education Participants | 1525 | 300 |
